{"id":"CVE-2023-52742","summary":"net: USB: Fix wrong-direction WARNING in plusb.c","details":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: USB: Fix wrong-direction WARNING in plusb.c\n\nThe syzbot fuzzer detected a bug in the plusb network driver: A\nzero-length control-OUT transfer was treated as a read instead of a\nwrite.  In modern kernels this error provokes a WARNING:\n\nusb 1-1: BOGUS control dir, pipe 80000280 doesn't match bRequestType c0\nWARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 4645 at drivers/usb/core/urb.c:411\nusb_submit_urb+0x14a7/0x1880 drivers/usb/core/urb.c:411\nModules linked in:\nCPU: 1 PID: 4645 Comm: dhcpcd Not tainted\n6.2.0-rc6-syzkaller-00050-g9f266ccaa2f5 #0\nHardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google\n01/12/2023\nRIP: 0010:usb_submit_urb+0x14a7/0x1880 drivers/usb/core/urb.c:411\n...\nCall Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n usb_start_wait_urb+0x101/0x4b0 drivers/usb/core/message.c:58\n usb_internal_control_msg drivers/usb/core/message.c:102 [inline]\n usb_control_msg+0x320/0x4a0 drivers/usb/core/message.c:153\n __usbnet_read_cmd+0xb9/0x390 drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c:2010\n usbnet_read_cmd+0x96/0xf0 drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c:2068\n pl_vendor_req drivers/net/usb/plusb.c:60 [inline]\n pl_set_QuickLink_features drivers/net/usb/plusb.c:75 [inline]\n pl_reset+0x2f/0xf0 drivers/net/usb/plusb.c:85\n usbnet_open+0xcc/0x5d0 drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c:889\n __dev_open+0x297/0x4d0 net/core/dev.c:1417\n __dev_change_flags+0x587/0x750 net/core/dev.c:8530\n dev_change_flags+0x97/0x170 net/core/dev.c:8602\n devinet_ioctl+0x15a2/0x1d70 net/ipv4/devinet.c:1147\n inet_ioctl+0x33f/0x380 net/ipv4/af_inet.c:979\n sock_do_ioctl+0xcc/0x230 net/socket.c:1169\n sock_ioctl+0x1f8/0x680 net/socket.c:1286\n vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]\n __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:870 [inline]\n __se_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:856 [inline]\n __x64_sys_ioctl+0x197/0x210 fs/ioctl.c:856\n do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]\n do_syscall_64+0x39/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd\n\nThe fix is to call usbnet_write_cmd() instead of usbnet_read_cmd() and\nremove the USB_DIR_IN flag.","modified":"2026-04-02T09:43:14.321963Z","published":"2024-05-21T15:23:04.513Z","related":["SUSE-SU-2024:1979-1","SUSE-SU-2024:1983-1","SUSE-SU-2024:2008-1","SUSE-SU-2024:2011-1","SUSE-SU-2024:2019-1","SUSE-SU-2024:2184-1","SUSE-SU-2024:2189-1","SUSE-SU-2024:2190-1"],"database_specific":{"osv_generated_from":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/52xxx/CVE-2023-52742.json","cna_assigner":"Linux"},"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0d2cf3fae701646061e295815bb7588d2f3671cc"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1be271c52bf3554edcb8d124d1f8c7f777ee5727"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/25141fb4119112f4ebf8f00cf52014abbc8020b1"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/43379fcacea2dcee35d02efc9c8fe97807a503c9"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6f69307f625904feed189008381fd83bd1a35b63"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/811d581194f7412eda97acc03d17fc77824b561f"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f0ad46ef772438c0596df370450d8bdc8a12dbfb"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/52xxx/CVE-2023-52742.json"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-52742"},{"type":"PACKAGE","url":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git"}],"affected":[{"ranges":[{"type":"GIT","repo":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git","events":[{"introduced":"090ffa9d0e904e1ed0f86c84dcf20684a8ac1a5a"},{"fixed":"f0ad46ef772438c0596df370450d8bdc8a12dbfb"},{"fixed":"6f69307f625904feed189008381fd83bd1a35b63"},{"fixed":"43379fcacea2dcee35d02efc9c8fe97807a503c9"},{"fixed":"1be271c52bf3554edcb8d124d1f8c7f777ee5727"},{"fixed":"25141fb4119112f4ebf8f00cf52014abbc8020b1"},{"fixed":"0d2cf3fae701646061e295815bb7588d2f3671cc"},{"fixed":"811d581194f7412eda97acc03d17fc77824b561f"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-52742.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5"}